The problem with cheap hosting is they want to use backups as an upsell, but you should still have backups to cover the companies ass even if the customer doesn’t get to use them.
123 Reg lost a load of customers VPS’s a year or two ago also thanks to a faulty script.
with modern container hosting you really should be able to make your own. even with cheap VPS hosting. There is no reason to live in a world where a server goes down you lose anything anymore.